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Over the past couple of years, as the Duffer brothers have been working toward the final season of Stranger Things, Netflix has been trying to establish a new flagship I.P. to take its place. Wednesday seems to have tapped into a lot of the same demographics, KPop Demon Hunters has very strong franchise potential, and Greta Gerwig’s Narnia franchise is sure to be a fun and faithful adaptation of one of literature’s greatest fantasy sagas. But it still remains to be seen how Netflix will fill the Stranger Things-sized hole in its lineup. And now that The Boys has finished its fifth and final se

I'll be completely honest with you — I have absolutely no idea why everything seems to be broken right now. But I have some suspicions. My suspicions were aroused a few months ago when I reported that Amazon pulled a Kindle update. A Reddit commenter found a certain amount of schadenfreude in the situation and claimed that Amazon had laid off a bunch of people and replaced them with vibe coding. The implications were obvious — the problems are due to vibe coding. Code written by generative AI is prone to hallucinations and is highly likely to contain bugs and issues. Or at least, that's the th

If AI is the future and vibe coding is where the tech industry is headed, is this what we should really be looking forward to? Broken apps, bug-ridden operating systems, and hallucinating AI chatbots? I have no evidence that this is happening, except for Amazon, where it clearly is. But the trends in broken apps and updates are so similar that I'm willing to take a guess and assume that it is. If it is true, the future doesn't look great for tech in general, and software in particular. Unless companies stop using AI, either due to the bubble popping or the costs becoming prohibitive, we'll hav